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17-year-old boy shot to death in Mid-City teen club identified by coroner

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New Orleans police say Club Whatever Dance School, 803 N. Broad St. New Orleans, was operating as an unlicensed teen club early Sunday morning (April 27) when a 17-year-old boy was gunned down inside. Two other teens, girls ages 15 and 18, were also wounded in the shooting. A woman supervising a dance rehearsal there on Sunday said the facility is dance school, not a club.
(Michelle Hunter / NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune)

The teen, identified as Charles Gilbert, died April 27 at the hospital after after being shot multiple times inside the Club Whatever Dance School shortly after midnight, said coroner spokesman John Gagliano.

The shooting also injured two teenage girls. A 15-year-old suffered a graze wound to her body and an 18-year-old was shot in the ankle. Both were transported to a local hospital where they were listed in stable condition.

Police said the shooting happened inside a building in the 800 block of N. Broad Street that was functioning as a nightclub at the time, but does not hold the proper licenses to operate as such.

A woman supervising a dance rehearsal at the building Sunday afternoon told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune that the space was a dance school, and not a club. The woman, who refused to give her name, said only that there was a fundraiser that had been held at the building Saturday night. She would not comment further.

"It was a function that happened here, and I don't know anything else," she said.

Police have yet to make any arrests in the shooting and have not released any additional information regarding possible suspects.

Anyone who has any information on the murder is asked to call Crimestoppers at 504.822.1111 or toll-free at 877.903.7867. Tips can also be texted to C-R-I-M-E-S (274637); text TELLCS then the crime information. Callers or texters do not have